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  • I did buy a (secondhand) nvidia card specifically for AI worlkloads because yes, I realised that this is what the AI dev community has settled on, and if I try to avoid nvidia I will be making life very hard for myself.

    But that doesn’t change the fact that it still absolutely sucks that nvidia have this dominance in the space, and that it is largely due to what tooling the community has decided to use, rather than any unique hardware capability which nvidia have.



  • Yeah actually mental.

    What he calls ‘dedication’ is actually fear at having to hold your job down during the middle of a fucking WAR because if you disappoint your corporate overlords you will be both getting missiles rained on you AND unable to support your family.

    It’s desperation, and desperation which is very intentionally baked into the system so dickhead ‘leaders’ like these can get the slaves they are looking for and label that slavery as a ‘positive work ethic’

    So out of touch with real people.







  • I can see both sides.

    The studio is upset that people are leaving negative reviews for what the studio thinks are minor issues and will be fixed by release.

    But on the other hand, you can’t expect people to review a game on anything other than the state it is now.

    That said, the gamer community is definitely pretty brutal and known to pile on with negative reviews to ‘punish’ the smallest changes they don’t like, and that is especially true for games that get ‘updates’, like live-service games, or in this case, games still in early access. Players hope the bad reviews will make the developers change course, but that’s no good if they go under before they can.

    For Early Access, the type of game they picked (something with levelling and upgrades and ‘game meta’) is especially prone to rough feedback too, when compared to other genres like horror or platformers or sandbox games where people are a lot more forgiving.

    I imagine they needed to do early access to keep the studio going and maybe to generate funds for the next Ori (fingers crossed?) and I hope that doesn’t end up being the choice that ends them.






  • Different experience for me. My mum was a lovely person who never pressured me into anything, and in retrospect I wish she had, just a tiny bit more.

    She asked for example if I wanted to learn an instrument - and I said no, and she respected that and didn’t push. The truth is that I’d have actually loved to, but I was afraid of failing, and scared to start.

    Now in my late thirties I finally bought an electric piano and started learning.

    I don’t blame my mum at all, but I guess my point is that kids will very often say “no” to things, because no is the easy answer. If she’d said instead “try a couple of lessons, and if you don’t enjoy it you can stop” then the outcome would have been quite different.